News: The maintainer of this site, Jess Scott, died suddenly of a heart attack on Oct. 31, 2012 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. During his life, Jess created and maintained stithvalley.com, and spent countless hours compiling and sharing the images and historical records that are found here. This website will continue to be available online, for the benefit of the many families and homesteads that he documented. Please send inquiries, condolences, or updates to jscott @ stithvalley.com, which will continue to be checked by the family.

I will speak to you in poetry
Unfold the mysteries
Of the past.
What we have heard and know,
what our ancestors have told us
we shall not conceal
from their descendents, but
will tell to a generation
still to come.....

Images can be viewed with much more detail than from either Netscape or Internet
Explorer using the program wingif.exe. For the experienced user you can right-click
on wingif.exe and download it. Then download the image you want
to view. Then from the windows explorer you can drag images onto wingif.exe to
display them. (Mac users ... sorry it only works in windows.!)

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18 Jul 2004 New Stith Book: THE STITHS:
LIFE ON THE FRONTIER, MEADE, HARDIN AND BRECKINRIDGE COUNTIES, KENTUCKY
1804 by Harriet Fast Scott, 2004 ...... The children and grandchildren of
Richard (1727-1802)
and Lucy (Hall) Stith

19 December 2003 - Capt John Kasey,
Jr. of Big Spring, Kentucky, papers from 1835-1841. Description of Big Spring
Kentucky on December 19, 1839. Description of route by horseback from Virginia
through Cumberland Gap to the Elizabethtown Kentucky area in December 1839.

11 Feb 2002 - 1884 Church Register, Methodist
Episcopal Church South, Big Spring Conference, Data from 1884 through 1900. This is
a separate CD. The contents page only from Church Register CD is posted on web site
and on Stith Valley CD.

28 Nov 99 Rachel Hardin's Shacklette Family History
is now completely copied courtesy of Carol Scott. Contains related family
information: Williams, Stith, Saunders, Taylor and more. Rachel is
looking for originals of more photos. We will add them as they are available.

10 Feb 99 Family letters contributed by Margaret Alma
Witt. Includes a letter from Louisa Cain (Galligher) to Margaret Cain (Hardaway) and
some letters from the depression.
Irene Buckner Stith and Diva at the Piggot
train station on December 15, 1912. I did quite a bit of reorganizing of the
file system here. Please let me know if you find a broken link.

28 Jan 99 Cabin photos at
Woodspoint. Look down the page for new photos and
information on Charles Harold Scott and Margaret Eleanor Scott Witt (Uncle Harold and
Aunt Mago) to include a photo of Uncle John in 1915.

17 Jan 99 Jones Ancestry
including a picture of the house where Nancy Jones Stith grew up.